From the the world over bestselling writer of The final Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a singular of incomparable scope and wonder that takes the reader on an epic trip from war-ravaged nineteenth-century Europe to antebellum the USA. A bereft baby, a freed African slave, and the wealthy heritage of Portugal’s mystery Jews collide memorably in Richard Zimler’s captivating novel--a surprising paintings of historic fiction performed out opposed to a backdrop of struggle and chaos that unforgettably mines the mysteries of devotion, betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness.

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Rhodry called out. ’ In a clatter and jingle of tack and hooves the squad jogged off downhill. When they came onto the flat, Jahdo got his first omen of what their welcome might be like. Just by the road a they saw a young girl, her blonde hair hanging in one long pigtail down her back She was wearing a dirty brown dress, cinched in at her waist with a length of old rope, and carrying a wooden crook, apparently to help her herd the cows. At the sound of the horses’ hooves and the jingle of tack, she turned toward the road and watched as the men rode by.

With a shake of his head, Yraen strode off to get the squad ready to ride. As Jahdo watched them, he wondered why the view had turned so hazy, wondered why he felt so trembly, all of a sudden. Then he realized that he was crying, the tears running down his face of their own accord. Still kneeling, Meer held out one enormous arm. Jahdo rushed to him and flung himself against the Horsekin’s chest to sob aloud while Meer moaned and whimpered under his breath. ’ In a river twist the etheric water puddled like a mirror, slick silver, edged with green.

Unthinkably long ago, in the morning light of the universe when Evandar and his people were struck, sparks from immortal fire as all souls are, they’d been meant to take up the burden of incarnation, to ride with all other souls the turning wheels of Life and Death, but somehow, in some way that not even they could remember, they had, as they put it, ‘stayed behind’ and never been born into physical bodies. Without the discipline of the worlds of form, they were doomed. One by one, they would wink out and die, sparks flown too far from the fire - or so he’d been told, and so he believed, simply because he loved the woman who’d told him the tale and for no other reason of intellect or logic.